AI can not save us, but it will facilitate a vast amount of short-term profit. The actual human and environmental cost will be considerable.
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AI isn’t coming to save us
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harmonic communication
Communication persists not by preserving messages, but because each exchange reshapes the system that makes further exchange possible.
Much of what capitalism conditions us to fear in communism is what concentrated capitalism already does: centralise power, narrow freedom, restrict opportunity and preserve poverty as structural necessity.
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redesigning the global economy
The greatest trick concentrated capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that its own most destructive tendencies belonged exclusively to communism.
Institutions rarely fail because they cannot recognise problems. They fail because recognising problems is not the same as escaping the conditions that reproduce them.
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
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the same problem
The most important pattern in modern society is the one almost nobody is looking for.
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how capitalism reconstructs scarcity
The institutions assigned to solve our deepest problems are sustained by these, the very relations they are unable and/or unwilling to question.
Capitalism does not distribute abundance. It sustains value by distributing differential (as inequitable) access.
A system cannot sustainably maximise accessibility and scarcity at the same time.
What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
Language does not merely describe civilisation. It quietly engineers the conditions of its own persistence through us.
Daedelus Kite 